Rachel Enright Murphy

Rachel Enright Murphy is a visual artist who has recently completed a BFA in Media with Critical cultures in NCAD. Through video, sound, performance, writing, and installation, she explores ambiguities and visual narratives surrounding written and spoken word. Her current practice is concerned with the sound and the human voice with a focus on the essential vibratory aspect of the voice in comparison to writing; as sound is both felt and heard. The narratives she explores in her work often surround animal subjects, examining the language and ideologies are applied onto them. Her degree exhibition V Shape, M Shape was a two-channel video installation that explores and alters scientific narratives surrounding birds of prey and was longlisted for the RDS visual art awards 2022. She was also awarded the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown General Artist Grant this year, which allowed her to complete a three-month residency in Leipzig. She has also performed and exhibited as part of  Fly Floor (2023) in the Complex Gallery, Caesura (2022) in Unit 44 and  I Love The Things I Kill The Most  (2021) in Dzialdov Gallery in Berlin. She currently lives and works in Dublin.

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Rachel Enright Murphy performing Mouth Sounds, audio performance, The Complex, Dublin, April 2023. Artworks featured in image are by Louisa Casas and Niamh O’Malley. Photo by Fionn McErlean. Image courtesy of the artist